Re: pvcs2cvs

[Lynn]

>I am currently trying to undertake a repository conversion from PVCS 5.2
> to CVS and I am looking in vain for the pvcs2cvs.pl script, that I am
> not able to find anywhere. The links to the script, that appear in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/, seem all to be broken and I
> would need and appreciate anyone's help for finding it and its
> documentation..
> Here is where I looked:
>    http://www.scm-professionals.com : not working
>    http://pages.prodigy.net/dlmart/scm/id19.htm : not working
>
> I was also wondering whether the pvcs2rcs.pl script (6 years old) would
> work with the compressed diff format that I see in the PVCS archive
> files that I have to convert.

We moved from PVCS 5.01 to CVS this last summer.

I got a summer intern to write a custom script in C# that extracted all of
the information from PVCS (revision by revision) and then created a new
file in CVS with all of the extracted information.

Thanks,
Lynn